{"id":633395,"date":"2026-04-27T04:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633395\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:54:12","slug":"ben-hunt-provides-update-on-future-broncos-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633395\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Hunt provides update on future, Broncos role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brisbane Broncos<\/a> veteran Ben Hunt<\/a> has confirmed he wants to play on for another year, but also revealed he is gunning for what will be a vacant halfback jersey at the Red Hill-based club.<\/p>\n

The halfback, who has played as a utility option across multiple positions including halfback since he rejoined the club last year from the St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a>, is off-contract at the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

There has been speculation he would follow another veteran Adam Reynolds<\/a> into retirement, but he has now said he wants to play on.<\/p>\n

The 360-game NRL<\/a> player told News Corp that negotiations over his future are underway.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re in the process of negotiating another year,\u201d Hunt told the publication.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe club came to me and asked if I’d like to go around again and I told them I’m definitely keen. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks we’ve got something sorted out.”<\/p>\n

It was seen however as a sure thing that Jonah Pezet<\/a> would be the club’s long-term halfback.<\/p>\n

Currently injured at the Parramatta Eels<\/a>, Pezet left the Melbourne Storm<\/a> for the blue and gold this year, but his one-year deal in Sydney’s west will give way to a long-term contract at Brisbane from the start of 2027.<\/p>\n

Given Ezra Mam<\/a> has locked up the number six jersey long-term for the Broncos in a spine that also features Reece Walsh<\/a> and either Billy Walters<\/a>, Cory Paix<\/a>, Blake Mozer<\/a> or Cameron Bukowski<\/a>, it leaves Hunt looking at another year off the bench if he continues to play.<\/p>\n

Not that he is ready to accept that fate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m definitely keen to lock in a position and I’d love to play halfback,” he revealed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know \u2018Reyno’ is retiring and they’ve got Jonah Pezet<\/a> coming next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I’m going to be trying to play at halfback because that’s my preferred position and I still think I can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brisbane, who are also dealing with a tight salary cap despite the loss of Payne Haas<\/a>, are currently gripped by an injury crisis, but have managed back-to-back wins as part of their premiership defence.<\/p>\n

Hunt, who has 20 Origins and 15 Tests to go with his 360 NRL<\/a> games, is currently out injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane Broncos veteran Ben Hunt has confirmed he wants to play on for another year, but also revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-633395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}